To: Past Your Eyes
Good stuff. There must be a collection of much more of these luscious tidbits somewhere all in one place? Non? I have a book of famous insults. My parents gave it to me when I was a teenager and I've kept it.
Winston Churchill and Mark Twain had some of the best in there.
30 posted on
08/06/2006 5:26:49 AM PDT by
Allegra
(FReeping LIVE! from "the other war zone.")
To: Allegra
I didn't see enough from Mark Twain. I must admit that I cheated and used the Internet. Still, they are from Twain:
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.
179 posted on
08/06/2006 5:33:02 PM PDT by
ChessExpert
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